A privacy watchdog group hired a skywriter to scrawl part of Citigroup CEO Charles Prince’s Social Security number in the sky over New York City last week, reports Wired Magazine.
The Foundation for Taxpayer & Consumer Rights was protesting lobbying by Citigroup to allow changes to the National Consumer Credit Reporting System Improvement Act, now up for renewal. The proposed changes would prevent state legislators from passing tougher privacy regulations, per Wired. If passed, the new law would supercede strict privacy measures passed in California earlier this year.
The group bought Prince’s Social Security number online for $26—the same price it paid for the numbers of CIA director George Tenet and Attorney General John Ashcroft.
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